freebsd on a newer pc

[Micah]

Jonathan Horne wrote:
>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>>> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose
>>> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p
>>> now' and
>>> the system will then power off properly. easy enough...
>>>
>>> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection?  i dont see
>>> anything about this in the handbook.
>>
>> My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes
>> the default.  Play around with it
>>
>> Chad
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> 
> i dont think thats the behavior im getting.  when i hit 2 to boot:
> 
> athena# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1    3 0xc0400000 6ab778   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0aac000 59960    acpi.ko
> athena# uname -a
> FreeBSD athena.int.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 16
> 20:48:52 CDT 2006    
> root at athena.int.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA  i386
> 
> and when i dont:
> athena# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1    1 0xc0400000 6ab778   kernel
> 
> when i want to boot the acpi support, i hit 2.  is that the proper way, or
> is there some other way that resets this mode as default?
> 
> thanks,
> jonathan

Last I read FreeBSD defaults ACPI off for systems that have "broken" 
ACPI, and defaults on for systems that have "working" ACPI. If you're 
sure your ACPI works without any problems add acpi_load="YES" to your 
loader.conf. (that might not be the "correct" solution, but it should work).

HTH,
Micah